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1) Do you have any PYTHON* environment variables set (do "env | grep
PYTHON")? If so, try unsetting them
2) What's the value of sys.path ("import sys; sys.path")?
3) If everything is OK, uninstall and and reinstall a version from python.org
4) After untar
a)./configure
b)make
c)make install

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